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  <title>Creative Loafing Atlanta: Hollywood Product</title>
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    <title>Hollywood Product: 2012</title>
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        Director Roland Emmerich is the John Holmes of disaster porn...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Disaster movie on a planetary scaleTHE PITCH: Technobabble about solar flares plus mumbo-jumbo about Mayan predictions equals catastrophes that could destroy all life on Earth, even movie stars. A White House science advisor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a novelist/limo driver (John Cusack), his ex-wife (Amanda Peet), and a shaggy conspiracy theorist (Woody Harrelson) all try to keep ahead of the fireballs and falling skyscrapers.MONEY SHOTS: Director Roland Emmerich remains the John Holmes of disaster porn. Highlights include the heroes out-driving a
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Hollywood Product</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product The Twilight Saga: New Moon</title>
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        <i>Twilight</i> sequel rises above expectations...
       
      
        By Edward Adams
      
      
      GENRE: Supernatural teenage drama THE PITCH: To prevent a frenzy for Bella&rsquo;s (Kristen Stewart) blood, the Cullens, including her soulmate Edward (Robert Pattinson), cut all ties and leave Forks, Wash. Devastated Bella eventually turns to longtime friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) to mend her broken heart, unintentionally stoking Jacob&#39;s fiery passion for her and uncovering his true nature. Unable to forget her first love, Bella sets off a reckless chain of events that ultimately sends her on a mission to
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: A Christmas Carol</title>
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        Disney's remake of a holiday classic hits a flat note...
       
      
        By Edward Adams
      
      
      GENRE: CGI holiday drama THE PITCH: Disney gives Charles Dickens&rsquo; classic holiday tale an animated makeover. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is visited by ghosts who show him glimpses of his past, present and future in efforts to save his soul before Christmas. MONEY SHOTS: It&rsquo;s hard to pull away from the visual effects each of the ghosts utilize to show Scrooge various moments in time. Ghost of Christmas Past (Carrey) uses slingshot-ish flight sequences to take Scrooge to parts
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Hollywood Product</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: The Fourth Kind</title>
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        Director Olatunde Osunsanmi dramatizes sketchy proof of alien abductions...
       
      
        By Edward Adams
      
      
      GENRE: Supernatural docudramaTHE PITCH: Director Olatunde Osunsanmi reenacts a mysterious tale of alien abduction told by Dr. Abigail Tyler through interviews and recorded footage of close encounters in Nome, Alaska. Shot as a hybrid between a documentary and a feature film, viewers follow Tyler&rsquo;s (Milla Jovovich) desperate search to uncover the truth about strange coincidences occurring to her family and the residents of Nome.MONEY SHOTS: Dr. Tyler and her colleague Dr. Campos (Elias Koteas) reluctantly hypnotize her patient Scott Stracinsky
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Astro Boy</title>
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        Longtime anime icon makes American big-screen debut...
       
      
        By Edward Adams
      
      
      Normal.dotm   1 411 2347 Creative Loafing Media 19 4 2882 12.0  false 18 pt 18 pt   false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} GENRE: CGI sci-fi adventure THE PITCH: When Dr. Tenma&rsquo;s (Nicolas Cage) son Tobio (Freddie Highmore) meets an unfortunate end, the grief-stricken scientist creates a
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Hollywood Product</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Law Abiding Citizen</title>
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        Gerard Butler plays an unhinged family man in this revenge thriller...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Revenge thrillerTHE PITCH: After home invaders kill his wife and daughter, &ldquo;tinkerer&rdquo; Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) exacts revenge on Philadelphia&rsquo;s criminal justice system, particularly district attorney Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who cut a deal to give a sleazy killer a light sentence. Clyde turns out to be more like the Joker in The Dark Knight than Charles Bronson in Death Wish.MONEY SHOTS: Clyde uses a booby-trapped handgun to outfox an enemy. Clyde not only subjects a bad guy to
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    <category>Movies &amp;amp; TV/Hollywood Product</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Couples Retreat</title>
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        <i>Swingers</i>' Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn co-write a limp comedy...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Frat-pack vacationTHE PITCH: Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell play spouses contemplating divorce who convince three couples to join them at a tropical resort that requires a mandatory &ldquo;skill-building&rdquo; session. Other pairs include Vince Vaughn and Watchmen&rsquo;s Malin Akerman, Jon Favreau and &ldquo;Sex and the City&rsquo;s&rdquo; Kristin Davis, and Faizon Love and Kali Hawk.MONEY SHOTS: Bateman and Bell pitch their friends the trip idea with a Power Point presentation that enumerates their marital problems. A bucket of chum splashes Vaughn
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Zombieland</title>
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        Filmed in Georgia, this ultraviolent zombie comedy finds fresh life...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Ultraviolent zombie comedyTHE PITCH: In zombie-ravaged America, four mismatched survivors nicknamed Columbus (Adventureland&rsquo;s Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Superbad&rsquo;s Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Little Miss Sunshine&rsquo;s Abigail Breslin) try to get along while killing the undead and road-tripping to a California amusement park. By the way, it&rsquo;s a comedy.MONEY SHOTS: The spectacular opening credits show slow-motion zombie attacks in incongruous places like a three-legged race. Little girl zombies in princess outfits swarm a soccer mom, who drives
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Jennifer&amp;#39;s Body</title>
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        Megan Fox's limited range weakens Oscar-winner Diablo Cody's high school horror satire...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Horrors at high schoolTHE PITCH: A hot, slightly bitchy high schooler (Megan Fox) turns into a hotter, bitchier, boy-eating cannibal when a satanic ceremony goes wrong. A mousy teen nicknamed &ldquo;Needy&rdquo; (Mamma Mia!&rsquo;s Amanda Seyfried) tries to stop her former BFF in the sophomore script from Diablo Cody, Oscar-winner for Juno.MONEY SHOTS: Jennifer&rsquo;s big grin with bloodstained face and teeth when she returns from a fateful date. Jennifer&rsquo;s nude swim across a lake. The crosscutting between Jennifer&rsquo;s evil seduction
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs</title>
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        Charming children's book becomes an eye-popping 3-D computer-animated feature...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Sci-fi foodie adventureTHE PITCH: Young crackpot inventor Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader) accidentally revitalizes his struggling hometown with a gizmo that causes &ldquo;food weather&rdquo; to fall from the sky. When greed and pride cause ginormous menu items to wreak havoc, it&rsquo;s like a Roland Emmerich disaster film combined with an all-you-can eat buffet.MONEY SHOTS: The big moments of weather food all look great, including the initial, manna-like rain of cheeseburgers and a snowfall of ice cream. Disaster weather
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: 9</title>
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        Tim Burton produces Shane Acker's CGI sci-fi adventure...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: CGI sci-fi adventureTHE PITCH: In a post-apocalyptic city, robotic ragdolls (called &ldquo;stitchpunks&rdquo; in the production notes), including inquisitive 9 (voiced by Elijah Wood), find remnants of the war machines that destroyed humanity. It&rsquo;s like Pinocchio vs. Terminator.MONEY SHOTS: The film&rsquo;s basically built around a series of set pieces of the stitchpunks fighting mechanical monsters, including the Cat Beast, which resembles a bionic feline skeleton; the hypnotic serpentine Seamstress; and the Fabrication Machine, which looks like a jerry-rigged version of
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Extract</title>
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        <i>Office Space</i> writer/director Mike Judge offers another workplace comedy...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Workplace comedyTHE PITCH: &ldquo;Arrested Development&rsquo;s&rdquo; Jason Bateman plays Joel, owner of a beverage company called Reynold&rsquo;s Extract, who juggles a corporate buyout, a personal injury lawsuit, a sexually disinterested wife (Kristen Wiig), a manipulative hottie (Mila Kunis), and the occasional horse tranquilizer. The latest likely cult comedy from writer/director Mike Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy).MONEY SHOTS: On the bottling floor, a chain reaction of laziness and incompetence results in would-be floor manager Step&rsquo;s (Clifton Collins Jr.) testicular injury. J.K. Simmons
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard</title>
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        Funny, but something's not right under the hood...
       
      
        By Edward Adams
      
      
      GENRE: Frat pack fueled used car movie THE PITCH: When Selleck Motors is on the brink of closing, owner Ben Selleck (James Brolin) seek salvation from the industries&rsquo; go-to man Don Ready (Jeremy Piven) and his maverick sales team. Ready guarantees he can &ldquo;sell the metal&rdquo; &mdash; selling every car on the lot over the Fourth of July holiday weekend to stop Selleck&rsquo;s rival from taking over. MONEY SHOTS: The flashback sequence as Don Ready describes to love interest and
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra</title>
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        By Alejandro A. Leal
      
      
      GENRE: Yet Another Toy Franchise Adaptation as a super-secret elite army squadron kicks ass all over the world (quite literally). PITCH: After a team of soldiers is ambushed during delivery of NATO-funded nano-technology weapons sold by a multinational arms-dealing corporation, a global pursuit ensues to recover the precious robo microbes. MONEY SHOTS: The microscopic robots can be programmed to eat anything on command, and at one point chew through the insides of the Eiffel Tower, toppling it over in a
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Hollywood Product: Funny People</title>
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        Judd Apatow's bittersweet bromance is rife with navel gazing...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      GENRE: Bittersweet bromanceTHE PITCH: Stand-up comic-turned-movie megastar George Simmons (Adam Sandler as a fictionalized version of himself) mentors aspiring comedian Ira Wright (Seth Rogen) after being diagnosed with a rare disease. Will George&rsquo;s self-assessment inspire him to reconnect with his former fianc&eacute;e Laura (Leslie Mann)?MONEY SHOTS: The film&rsquo;s best jokes are George&rsquo;s horrible-looking fake movie hits such as the Splash-like Merman and the magic baby comedy Re-Do. Ira blubbers hilariously while meeting George at a diner. Laura proves to be
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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